{"quotes":[{"text":"The route to his hotel had been committed to memory a long time ago. From the overflowing trashcan on the corner to the feral cats that frequented the dumpsters behind the nearby shawarma shop, Jamison knew every detail.","author":"Christian F. Burton","tags":["saudi-arabia","terrorism","thrillers"],"id":7177,"author_id":"Christian+F.+Burton"},{"text":"The problem is that, when places like Saudi Arabia just implement the penal code, and don’t provide the social and economic justice of the Sharia—the whole package—they simply engender hatred toward the Sharia.","author":"Anjem Choudary","tags":["islam","law","saudi-arabia","sharia-law"],"id":21711,"author_id":"Anjem+Choudary"},{"text":"My biggest fear is that the enlightened Arab thinkers are gong to leave the Arab world in search of fresh air: somewhere far away from the sword of the religious authorities.","author":"Raif Badawi","tags":["freespeech","islam","liberty","oppression","presecution","religion","saudi-arabia","society","theocracy"],"id":34336,"author_id":"Raif+Badawi"},{"text":"Unlike Saudi Arabia, Russia, and China, the United States was created by an enlightened band of Founding Fathers with a global vision for the new republic.","author":"Patrick Mendis","tags":["china","enlightened-founding-fathers","global-vision","new-republic","russia","saudi-arabia","the-golobalist","united-states"],"id":39043,"author_id":"Patrick+Mendis"},{"text":"States that are built on a religious foundation limit their own people in a circle of faith and fear.","author":"Raif Badawi","tags":["itarianism","freedom-of-expression","history","islam","liberty","logic","oppression","persecution","religion","saudi-arabia","stultification","theocracy","totalitarianism"],"id":54156,"author_id":"Raif+Badawi"},{"text":"We were like captive animals that had lost the will to fight. We even went so far as to defend the very constraints that they hadimposed upon us.","author":"Manal Al-Sharif","tags":["daring-to-drive","driving","equality","inequality","jail","manal-al-sharif","patriarchal-society","right-to-drive","saudi-arabia","saudi-women","segregation","women-s-rights","women-to-drive"],"id":88503,"author_id":"Manal+Al-Sharif"},{"text":"The lifetime prevalence of dissociative disorders among women in a general urban Turkish community was 18.3%, with 1.1% having DID (ar, Akyüz, \u0026 Doan, 2007). In a study of an Ethiopian rural community, the prevalence of dissociative rural community, the prevalence of dissociative disorders was 6.3%, and these disorders were as prevalent as mood disorders (6.2%), somatoform disorders (5.9%), and anxiety disorders (5.7%) (Awas, Kebede, \u0026 Alem, 1999). A similar prevalence of ICD-10 dissociative disorders (7.3%) was reported for a sample of psychiatric patients from Saudi Arabia (AbuMadini \u0026 Rahim, 2002).","author":"Paul H. Blaney","tags":["africa","dissociative-disorders","dissociative-identity-disorder","dsm","ethiopia","mental-health","multiple-personality-disorder","psychiatry","saudi-arabia","split-personality"],"id":96208,"author_id":"Paul+H.+Blaney"},{"text":"In fighting its war, the Ministry of the Interior has resorted to a novel tactic–marriage. No Saudi official will admit on the record that the Kingdom’s terrorist problem might boil down to sexual frustration, but if a social system bans hot-blooded young men from contact with the opposite sex in their most hot-blooded years, perhaps it is hardly surprising that some of them channel this frustration into violence. One cornerstone of the extremist rehab program is to get the “beneficiaries,” as they are called, settled down with a wife as soon as possible. The Ministry of the Interior pays each unmarried beneficiary 60,000 riyals (some $18,000), the going rate for a dowry, or bride price. The family arranges a marriage, and whenever he can, Prince Mohammed turns up for the wedding.When Khaled Al-Hubayshi was released from Al-Haier prison early in 2007, he wasted no time finding himself a bride at government expense.","author":"Robert Lacey","tags":["marriage","saudi-arabia"],"id":101453,"author_id":"Robert+Lacey"},{"text":"The Al Saud believe they have an asset more powerful than the ballot box: they have Allah.","author":"Karen Elliott House","tags":["history","political","saudi-arabia"],"id":114291,"author_id":"Karen+Elliott+House"},{"text":"I was lonely, desperate, and angry. At that moment, I truly understood what it meant to be a Saudi woman. It meant being confronted with every possible kind ofobstacle and discrimination. It meant being told that if you want to race with men, you’d have to do it with your hands and legs cut off. I started to wish I had been born somewhere—anywhere—else.","author":"Manal Al-Sharif","tags":["discrimination","driving","equality","equity","hopeless","manal-al-sharif","men","obstacles","patriarchy","professional-women","saudi-arabia","saudi-women","women","women-s-rights"],"id":125786,"author_id":"Manal+Al-Sharif"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":24,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}